The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) is a research center at the University of California, Irvine. Founded in 1972, the TLG has already collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. The database now contains over 76 million words of text from over 6,600 works and work collections from nearly 2,000 authors.